The fuzz about SP2 is largely exaggerated in my opinion. They fixed a zillion bugs, and introduced a few new. For some people the newly introduced bugs can be serious of course, but most of them have workarounds. Personally I have not been affected at all.

>Thanks Mike. I meant I was using SP1. Have not upgraded to SP2 becuase I dont trust it - seems too many other funnies surrounding it. But thanks for the feedback.
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>>The PictureVal bug with png images was corrected in SP2, at least it works for me.
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cPict = FILETOSTR(GETPICT())
>>thisform.image1.PictureVal = cPict

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>>>Hi Al
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>>>Can Image.PictureVal not accept a PNG file? I can make it work with JPG but nor PNG. Is that right?
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>>>Thanks